Nancy Dolman


Nancy Jane Dolman was a Canadian comic actress and singer. She was most notable for her recurring role as Annie Selig Tate on the ABC sitcom Soap. She appeared in her husband Martin Short's 1985 cable television special Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas.

Life and career

Dolman was born in Toronto. Her brother is director Bob Dolman. Dolman performed in the Canadian Rock Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar in the early 1970s, which travelled to Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and recorded an album with the group at MGM while they were in Los Angeles.
In 1980, she married fellow Canadian actor Martin Short, whom she had met during the run of the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell. Dolman was Gilda Radner's understudy. Dolman attended high school at York Mills Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and held a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario.
Dolman retired from show business in 1985 to be a homemaker and full-time mother to her children. A profile of the couple appeared in the February 1987 issue of Vogue. The family made their home in Pacific Palisades, California. Dolman and Short also kept a vacation home in Lake Rosseau, Ontario.

Children

Dolman and Short adopted three children: Katherine Elizabeth, a graduate of New York University; Oliver Patrick, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business; and Henry Hayter, who also graduated from the University of Notre Dame in May 2012.

Death

Dolman was suffering from ovarian cancer and died on August 21, 2010, in Pacific Palisades, California, at the age of 58. According to the Los Angeles County Coroner, she died of natural causes. Dolman's remains were cremated and her ashes were scattered from the dock of the Short family cottage, onto the waters of Lake Rosseau, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.

Tributes

, a close friend of Dolman and Short, dedicated a musical elegy for Dolman following her death titled, "The Great Remember " in his collaborative album, Rare Bird Alert with the Steep Canyon Rangers.